* The Goths appear on the lower Danube frontier, they invade the Ukraine and Romania.

* The Goths appear at the walls of Thessalonica.

This is the first considerable occasion the Goths — who would later come to play such an important role — appear in the historical record.

Names for Goths appear that stopped being used after 390, such as Grýting ( Ostrogoth, cf.

Shieldmaidens also appear in stories of other Germanic nations: Goths, Cimbri, and Marcomanni.

The names given by Pliny and Tacitus appear to be identical to * Gutaniz, the reconstructed Proto-Germanic form of Gutans, the Goths ' and the Gotlanders ' name for themselves.

Additionally, the Lombards would have known of the weakness of Byzantine Italy, which had endured a number of problems after being retaken from the Goths.

The Peucini Bastarnae would have been critical to this venture since, as coastal and delta dwellers, they would have had seafaring experience that the nomadic Sarmatians and Goths lacked.

The Goths have had many names, possibly due to their population being composed of many separate ethnic groups.

The Old East Norse term for both Goths and Gotlanders seems to have been Gutar ( for instance, in the Gutasaga and in the runic inscription of the Rökstone ).

The Goths are believed to have crossed the Baltic Sea sometime between the end of this period ( ca 300 BC ) and AD 100.

The dragging war with the Goths was a disaster for Italy, even though its long-lasting effects may have been less severe than is sometimes thought.

The Goths have moved to the south.

When Belisarius was sent back to Italy in 544 to cope with a renewal of the war with the Goths, now led by the able king Totila, Procopius appears to have no longer been on Belisarius ' staff.

The treaty seems to have largely cut off relations between Goths and Romans, including free trade and the exchange of troops for tribute.

The Vandals may not have been any more destructive than other invaders of ancient times, but they did inspire British poet John Dryden to write, Till Goths, and Vandals, a rude Northern race, Did all the matchless Monuments deface ( 1694 ).

* Belisarius attacks the Goths when they have crossed the Milvian Bridge.

The legions who have campaigned against the Goths on the Danube elect Marcus Aemilius Aemilianus as new emperor.

* Marcus Annius Florianus defeats the Goths and Alans who have invaded Asia Minor.

Great numbers of Alans are found to have joined the conquerors on their further progress, and large bodies of Alans afterwards swelled the waves of Goths, Vandals, and Sueves, that rolled across the Western Empire.

A detachment of Romans began the battle without orders to do so, believing they would have an easy victory, and perhaps over-eager to exact revenge on the Goths after two years of unchecked devastation throughout the Balkans.

For example, a few lines were cut from various scenes, such as Lavinia's " Ay, for these slips have made him noted long " ( 2. 3. 87 ), thus removing the continuity error regarding the duration of the Goths residence in Rome.

For example, Saturninus ' " How well the tribune speaks to calm my thoughts " ( 1. 1. 46 ); Tamora's vow to slaughter the Andronici at 1. 1. 450 – 455 ( thus absolving Saturninus from any involvement ); Aaron's soliloquy in 2. 1 ; Aaron's " Ay, and as good as Saturninus may " ( 2. 1. 91 ); Aaron's soliloquy in 2. 3 ; Tamora's " Now will I hence to seek my lovely Moor ,/ And let my spleenful sons this trull deflower " ( 2. 3. 190 – 191 ); Aaron's two asides in 3. 1 ( ll. 187 – 190 and 201 – 202 ); Lucius ' " Now will I to the Goths and raise a power ,/ To be revenged on Rome and Saturnine " ( 3. 1. 298 – 299 ); Marcus ' " O, heavens, can you hear a good man groan " speech ( 4. 1. 122 – 129 ); Young Lucius ' asides in 4. 2 ( ll. 6 and 8 – 9 ); Aaron's " Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies ,/ There to dispose this treasure in mine arms ,/ And secretly to greet the Empress ' friends " ( 4. 2. 172 – 174 ); and Tamora's " Now will I to that old Andronicus ,/ And temper him with all the art I have ,/ To pluck proud Lucius from the warlike Goths " ( 4. 4. 107 – 109 ).

Some scholars have doubted that they were known outside Scandinavia ; however, there is evidence that the god Freyr is the same god as the Germanic deity Ing ( reconstructed as Proto-Germanic * Ingwaz ), and that, if so, he is attested as having been known among the Goths.

As entry into the Western Empire's military was a frequently-used option for " losers of struggles for leadership among the barbarians ", and Ricimer's family would have thus entered the service of Rome .< ref > Sister: Herwig Wolfram, History of the Goths, ( 1979 ) 1988: 33, following Martindale, Prosopography, 2: 524f ; daughter: Wolfram 1988: 202.

We have fixed the special attention of our readers upon this Votan, or Wodan, an American who appears in the same family with the Wods or Odins of the Goths and of the people of Celtic origins.

Those same Goths had previously sacked Rome in 410 and established a capital in Toulouse.

After this arrangement Constantine rules the dioceses Pannonia and Macedonia, and established his residence at Sirmium, from where he prepares a campaign against the Goths and Sarmatians.

A number of token kings ruled from there while Belisarius established that the Goths were not going to reinvade and retake Italy ( which was however taken again by the Lombards after Justinian's death ).

At that time, the administrative structure of Italy followed, with some modifications, the old system established by Emperor Diocletian, and retained by Odoacer and the Goths.

So you find men passing over everywhere, now to the Goths, now to the Bagaudae, or whatever other barbarians have established their power anywhere ... We call those men rebels and utterly abandoned, whom we ourselves have forced into crime.

The province of Dacia, established by several successful and lengthy campaigns by Trajan, began to collapse under pressure from the invading Goths in 256.

What followed was two years of political and military manoeuvering, Alaric, king of the Goths, attempting to secure a permanent peace treaty and rights to settle within Roman territory.

Historically, the county and its dialect was influenced by its political alliances, conquerors and rulers — ranging from the Romans to the Goths, Navarrese, the Franks, Moors, Castilians and Catalans.

By the end of the Empire the region had become a conduit for invaders to move westward, as well as the scene of treaties and complex political maneuvers by Romans, Goths and Huns, all seeking the best advantage for their peoples amid the shifting and disorderly final decades of Roman imperial power.

However, four years later in 387 CE Maximus invaded Italy seeking political control over the entire empire, which prompted the Eastern Emperor Theodosius I to gather his available armies, including the Goths, Huns, and Alans, along with his trusted commanders Arbogast and Richomeres to quash the rising authority of Maximus.

In contrast with the Swedes, the Danes of this era did not forward claims to political legitimacy based on assertions that their country was the original homeland of the Goths or that the conquest of the Roman Empire was proof of their own country's military valour and power through history.

AD 500: the Goths held overall hegemony, and under them, lesser Germanic tribes such as the Taifali and Gepids.

Jordanes concludes the work by stating that he writes to honour those who were victorious over the Goths after a history of 2030 years.

However, Louis marched the entire army of his kingdom, including Gascons with their duke Sancho I of Gascony, Provençals under Leibulf, and Goths under Bera, over the Pyrenees and besieged it for two years, wintering there from 800 to 801, when it capitulated.

* Emperor Arcadius sends many gifts to the Hunnish chieftain Uldin in appreciation of his victory over the Goths and Gainas.

He withdraws over the Succi ( Ihtiman ) Pass back to Illyrium and reports to Gratian that a expedition by the main imperial armies is required to repulse the Goths in Thrace.

In 268, Aurelian and his cavalry participated in general Claudius ' victory over the Goths at the Battle of Naissus.

After learning of Sebastian's success against the Goths, and of Gratian's victory over the Alamanni, Valens was more than ready for a victory of his own.

Their conflict seems set to boil over into violence until a tribune, Marcus Andronicus, announces that the people's choice for the new emperor is his brother, Titus, who will shortly return to Rome from a victorious ten-year campaign against the Goths.

Crispus on a coin issued to celebrate Constantine I's victory over Goths in 323

Jordanes concludes the work by stating that he writes to honour those who were victorious over the Goths after a history of 2030 years.

Newspapers in occupied Ukraine printed articles about antecedents of German rule over Ukraine, such as Catherine the Great and the Goths.

In 268, Primigenia probably fought under Gallienus at the Battle of Naissus, winning a victory over the Goths.

In Epiros, while the inhabitants of Nicopolis made hasty repairs to fortifications and managed to avert the danger, the leaders of Kerkyra organized their own army, crossed over into Epiros and defeated the Goths on land.

Goths attacked the emperor himself, but within a year Alaric was accepted as a leader of Theodosius's Gothic troops and this rebellion was over.

The Goths, weakened, were allowed to retreat back to Illyricum where the Western court again gave Alaric office, though only as comes and only over Dalmatia and Pannonia Secunda rather than the whole of Illyricum.

In the East, the Goths and other tribes from modern Ukraine raided in great numbers over the Black Sea.

Beginning in 654 Recceswinth was responsible for the promulgation of a law code to replace the Breviary of Alaric ; he placed a Visigothic common law over both Goths and Hispano-Romans in the kingdom.